For those who love rice…and hate fussing with it…

Zojirushi. http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-ZCC10-Cooker-Warmer-Premium/dp/B00007J5U7/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1334447880&sr=1-1 This never fails. Brown rice, sweet rice, white rice, mixed rice, sticky rice—perfect. You can cook a...

Tax time and the computer's dying…

This one owes us nothing, but it’s the desktop catchall in the net—we built this one from scratch, as I recall, and it’s got multiple disks and a lot of really outmoded software. It runs Win7 but it’s far from fast…and Jane and I took the...

Tax time and the computer’s dying…

This one owes us nothing, but it’s the desktop catchall in the net—we built this one from scratch, as I recall, and it’s got multiple disks and a lot of really outmoded software. It runs Win7 but it’s far from fast…and Jane and I took the...

A brief period of Pond Hell…

Startup is always a pita, and more so than usual this odd year, with cold weather—and my local store deciding to stock chlorine remover instead of a remover for both chlorine and chloramine, my feed store people complete clueless as to what chloramine is, or...

In spite of gruesome allergies, a bit of progress…

Remarkable how you can write underwater and with the sound of fans loud enough to homogenize your brain. OTOH, the koi all came out today, the house temp reached 74 degrees, hence finally necessitating the ac, because we cannot function or sleep at 75 and we...

Laurel and Hardy service the koi pond…

or…CJ installs the uv lights. These are two delicate, spendy glass wands with a VERY delicate fixture at the top, heavy cord, and two very heavy ballasts. They fit into the skimmer to kill algae spores. I go out there with 2 boxes (the lights) —and a Y...

Sorry—I've been writing nonstop…

…as you can tell by the word count. Something odd has happened. Before the book’s story really starts,  Bren has gotten into his computer and started reading some notes Geigi gave him and this looks as if it is going to be a prologue. I haven’t done...

Sorry—I’ve been writing nonstop…

…as you can tell by the word count. Something odd has happened. Before the book’s story really starts,  Bren has gotten into his computer and started reading some notes Geigi gave him and this looks as if it is going to be a prologue. I haven’t done...